tournament trick with morse code

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DostT8351

hi guys I want to ask you something some guys got the news that he cheats in morse code in chess For Examle

Borislav Ivanov:there are a lot of witnessing games that this man is cheating and everyone is thought to be a phone under  his suspect shoe and receiving a message from the computer using this phone using morse code

do you think you can receive messages from the phone with such morse alphabet and how

little_ernie

For over a hundred years signaling by a confederate has been a common method of cheating  in cards, chess or other games. The signal can be a visual cue, coughing or even, as occurred recently in baseball, by banging on a garbage can. 

Most cell phones can be set to vibrate, rather than beep or ring. With a phone in the shoe the player would sense the vibration without others noticing.  Any kind of code could be used, it wouldn't have to be Morse. The board has 64 squares and one can be specified by two bytes, one for file & for rank.

But who do you want to win ? You or a computer ?

llamonade2
DostT8351 wrote:

Borislav Ivanov:there are a lot of witnessing games that this man is cheating

That was almost 10 years ago.

In any case obviously it is not enough to receive moves. You must also have a way of communicating the board position, likely by relaying the opponent's moves each time after they're made.

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